• marcos@lemmy.world
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    10 months ago

    Wow, I can’t believe I’m reading that first point from a 2018 comment. I’d mock it if it was in 2006.

    You should have backups. Not hedge against 1 in 10 million error conditions.

    The second one is a huge bother in desktops. I never not regretted trying it.

    The third one is a complete non-problem.

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      10 months ago

      You should have backups. Not hedge against 1 in 10 million error conditions.

      if a partition isn’t actively written to, it’s less likely to suffer damage

      The second one is a huge bother in desktops. I never not regretted trying it.

      ok

      The third one is a complete non-problem.

      This is only a problem with OpenBSD. They never encourage using a huge single root partition, and never test it.

      It have an asterisk, not a -